AGENDA
5 May 2025
Registration
09:30
Welcome
10:00
Event Moderator (Eylem Certel)
Welcome Remarks - Speaker 1: Etkiniz representative - Speaker 2: EUD representative
10:15
Ayça Haykır: Team Leader, Etkiniz EU Programme
Thomas Hans Ossowski: Ambassador, Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye
Keynote Speech
10:30
Prof. Nilgün Toker, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey
10:45 Coffee break
Panel discussion: What are restrictive settings for civil society? Thinking outside the box for advocacy under restrictive settings
11:00
Moderator: Emel Kurma (Citizens’ Assembly)
Amine Ghali, Al Kawakibi Democracy Transition Center (KADEM, Tunisia)
Cristina Palabay, Karapatan Alliance Philippines
Maciej Nowicki, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, and the European Implementation Network
12:30 Lunch
Reflection & Learning Sessions: Are we doing it right?- Good practices and Lessons learnt
13:30
Parallel sessions
Hall 1- Advocating for the freedom of speech & media (Bianet / IPS Communication Foundation, Sinem Aydınlı)
Hall 2- Advocating for the rights of people with disabilities and for dismantling ableism (SENED, İdil Seda Ak)*
Hall 3- Advocating for dismantling anti-gender agenda (The Association for Struggle Against Sexual Violence- CŞMD, Şehlem Kaçar)
Hall 4- Advocating for a holistic approach to human rights and environmental rights (Dicle Tuba Kılıç / Doga Association, BirdLife International in Turkey)*
*(In Turkish only)
14:45 Coffee break
Reflection & Learning Sessions: How can we empower advocacy actions through alliances and coalitions?
15:00
Parallel sessions
Hall 1-Linking national to international for advocacy (Evan King- ESCR-Net, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights )
Hall 2- Multi-stakeholder alliances for advocacy: Bar
associations and trade unions (Feray Salman- Human Rights Joint Platform)*
Hall 3- Thematic alliances to access IHRM (Muhammed Ünsal- Independent expert)
Hall 4- Facilitating coalitions for advocacy (A group of CSOs who are the LTES RfS owners of Etkiniz long-term expert support), Moderator: Ayça Bulut Bican (Etkiniz EU Programme)*
*(In Turkish only)
6 May 2025
Panel discussion and Q&A: Advocacy Toolkit: Tools and strategies in different levels of human rights advocacy
09:30
Moderator: Adem Arkadaş-Thibert, Etkiniz EU Programme
Emel Kurma, Citizens’ Assembly
Özlem Zıngıl, Truth Justice Memory Center & Center for Spatial Justice
10:30 Coffee break
Parallel Sessions
10:00 / 11:00
Parallel session-1 (11:00 – 13:00)
Closing session: Discussion on what to do to improve human rights monitoring and advocacy efforts in Türkiye
Event Moderator (Eylem Certel)
Parallel session-2 (10:00 – 13:30)
(In collaboration with Human Rights Joint Platform – İHOP)
UPR Türkiye session live stream
(Live stream in Turkish)
13:30 Lunch